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Thursday, October 4, 2018

The answer to that is NO unless you are under the supervision of a doctor. This blog is extremely important before I begin teaching you about adaptogen herbs and how they can help your health.

Sinceadaptogen herbshelp different organs and body systems to work more effectively, your heart, blood pressure, and cholesterol functions may improve significantly. When those organs are normalized, you many find your need for the drugs is reduced or can be eliminated entirely. There are withdrawal symptoms to going off drugs, some of them severe. If your cholesterol is normal, the drug you are taking would become an overdose amount. Blood pressure medicine given when your blood pressure is normal could drive it down to a point of danger. Herbs and prescription medicine should not be taken without your doctor supervising.

Your doctor may suggest you taper off on the drug and slowly add herbs in. This depends on the drug and the reason you are taking it. Is your health situation critical?

If your doctor won't help you, find a doctor that will. The doctors we have gone to said herbs probably won't work, but try it. They are then very shocked when your markers are normal and you didn't take their medicine.

My husband's blood pressure and cholesterol were high. He was drinking 12 cups of coffee a day. He was also on a drug for his ADD. He slowly over two months reduced his coffee and medication. He then took herbs. Another three months he went for lab work, a heart stress test, and an echo. All were normal. His heart doctor was annoyed by the results. That doctor was really a jerk during the whole process but he did say go ahead. Most doctors will tell you herbs don't work but if you state you will not take the drugs until you have tried them for 4 months, they will let it go. They might even unwillingly help you to wean off the drug slowly. They will at least issue lab tests to confirm your progress at the end.

Don't expect approval or support. If you state you will take a drug, after you try the herbs, they will usually say ok. They expect to get you back again, still with negative markers, so they have another chance to get you on the drugs. Watch their face, when the lab results come back normal. It is not happy but very irritated. We have only had one doctor who asked us what we did to accomplish the goal of normal blood markers for cholesterol. He wanted to know so he could suggest it to his patients who could not take cholesterol medicine due to the nasty side effects.

Coffee in itself will raise your blood pressure for several hours after you drink even one cup. His ADD medicine states it can cause heart and blood pressure changes. His father was dying at the time which did not help at all. Still even with in his fathers last days, Marty's blood and heart tests came out normal. Marty was at the doctor getting those heart tests, the day his father passed away. We arrived 5 minutes too late that day. He could have lasted days more, but died unexpectedly that day.

When I was taking care of his father, my cholesterol shot up alarmingly. I don't drink, smoke, eat junk food, and am not fat. I told the doctors it was stress. I took herbs for my cholesterol and nerves at the time. I had recent tests and all my blood work is normal now. Stress in itself without dietary factors will raise your blood pressure and cholesterol markers. There are double blind tests that have proved that. We got tests that proved that the herbs normalized our cholesterol and other lab markers. However, we were not on prescription drugs other than his one for ADD. That one is nasty when going off it causing you to feel sick and get horrible migraines. The drug was causing heart problems so it was imperative for him to get off it. We did consult his doctor who supervised his withdrawal of the ADD medicine. Doctors prescribe drugs and most of them know very little about herbs or herbal medicine. When I told the first doctor that my markers were from stress, even with the evidence to support that statement, he told me only drugs would normalize it. He downplayed the stress factor.

I called them up after the lab tests verified my cholesterol.I informed them that I hadn't come back and would not come back to their office because all they do basically is give out drugs. I rarely go to doctors except for a yearly check up. A check up shows you problems you might not be aware of. It also can show the progress of your herbal program.

I have used herbs for 37 years on my health problems. No hospital visits or surgery and I am 67. I have health issues but I use herbal medicine. I have been to the doctor only once this year for anything other than a check up. I did take antibiotics that did not work and went back to a different set of herbs that did. That was for severe strep throat and bronchitis that I got just after his father passed away, then traveling to Colorado to see my grand daughter graduate. My immune system was depressed from 24 hour care, his father's sad death and being on a plane with a bunch of people coughing. At my daughter's house we didn't get much sleep and we ate things I normally do not eat. That was a perfect combination of events to wack my immune function.

Get a blood pressure cuff and monitor your own blood pressure. We did that with Marty before the heart tests. We took it 3 times a day for two months. Taking those tests proved his blood pressure went up with every call from the nursing home on his dads problems. My blood pressure never went up but my heart rate and cholesterol did. The stress of that time period had a profound affect on our health.

It is stated that care givers have their health impacted for up to 3 years after the death of the loved one. That is why often when a couple that has been married for a life time, the surviving spouse dies within days, hours, or months of the other. The grief and stress impacts the immune system by suppressing its function. When the immune system is not working, disease and illness occurs.Never go off your medicine cold turkey. Get supervision and monitor your markers by a doctor while reducing medication. I will start teaching you about the various adaptogen herbs in the next blog.

Tuesday, October 2, 2018

There is a whole world of herbal medicine that is beneficial to health. Some herbs such as Goldenseal are natural antibiotics against virus and bacteria. Garlic is another infection fighter. These herbs have more benefits such as Goldenseal's ability to lower blood sugar or the effect of garlic on cholesterol. They are not considered adaptogen herbs because their overall scope is somewhat limited. Many herbs are taken more to benefit a certain organ system in the body such as the urinary tract or the prostate. These herbs are often taken when there is a problem and only taken for a period of time. They are not usually taken everyday for long periods of time.

So the majority of herbs are more specific to certain imbalanced conditions and more limited in their effects on tissues and organs. Garlic, as a spice, is probably the exception since many cultures use garlic everyday in their meals to keep their immune system healthy.

Jiaogulan, the immortality vine, is one of many adaptogen herbs.

How are adaptogen herbs different and why should all of us be taking them.

Stress affects the whole body including problems in sleep, focus, concentration, fatigue, depression, stomach problems, headaches, heart changes, and affects to the endocrine system including the thyroid and cortisol production. Stress wrecks havoc throughout the different systems. This turns into imbalances which can turn into diseases like cancer. In stress the whole body is out of balance in one way or another. So in this case, adaptogen herbs are what we should look to to get back on track. That is along with working toward a better diet, less sugar, more rest, more exercise, and taking some time for you.

Its important also to work on your emotional state whether it be from overwork at your job or from death or divorce. Wellness is a result of bringing back your individual imbalance into balance once again. Each person is different and individual to their wellness path.That is why there are many different herbs to explore.

Jiogulan Plants that I grow here at our house. These are babies.

What herbs are considered adaptogens and why they should be included in your wellness program.

Adaptogen herbs increase resistance and resilience to stress, supporting the body and its organ systems to work effectively despite the stress.

Adaptogen herbs support the body's own inherent immune system and healing functions.

Adaptogen herbs reduce the effect of stress on the body and organ systems.

Adaptogen herbs help restore harmony and balance to the whole body and its systems. Their help to restore your health and energy. They are taken to achieve health and vitality again or to keep your body working effectively.

The compounds in these herbs work on the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis which plays the main role in your reaction to stress and your ability to adapt to that stress.

These adaptogen herbs more often grow in China, India, Korea, Japan, and Russia. There are several that grow in the US and In North America. It is usually the root that is used after growing in the ground for a number of years.In a few cases like Jiaogulan, the immortality vine, you use the leaves and stems. Many adaptogen herbs are expensive because it takes several years for them to be mature and contain these properties that help you to be healthier overall.

Two adaptogen herbs that we take in our family.

These herbs balance the body. If your thyroid is overactive, it will help to normalize it. If the thyroid is underactive, it will help to normalize that function. The herbs work again to create balance throughout the whole body. Most of these adaptogens have been used for hundreds and in the case of Ayurvedic medicine 5000 years.

Many of these adaptogens may not be known to some of you except for ginseng. Ginseng is the most well known in the United States, but it is only one of a whole family of amazing herbs that help your overall health. In the next blogs I will be going over these adaptogen herbs one by one giving a profile on each and how they might benefit your health and how to use them. These herbs have the benefit of being used every day not only to help you get well but keep you well.

The first herb in this profile will be Jiaogulan, the immortality vine.Kate Freer, the herbladyisin

Commentary by William B. Grant, Ph.D.

(OMNS Oct 1 2018) A "Disinformation
Playbook" has been used for decades by corporations to delay government
action on matters of public interest that would adversely affect their
income and profit. Some well-known examples include the big tobacco
companies, the coal and oil industries, the sugar industry, and the
National Football League. The Union of Concerned Scientists has outlined
five "pillars" of the Playbook
[Disinformation Playbook], [Alvord 2017]. Big Pharma may be using the
Playbook to slow the adoption of strong support for vitamin D. This
article is the product of my further analysis.

The Disinformation Playbook

1. The FakeConduct counterfeit science and try to pass it off as legitimate research.

2. The BlitzHarass scientists who speak out with results or views inconvenient for industry.

3. The DiversionManufacture uncertainty about science where little or none exists.

4. The ScreenBuy credibility through alliances with academia or professional societies.

5. The FixManipulate government officials or processes to influence policy inappropriately.

Background and evidence that vitamin D improves health outcomes

Big Pharma and its allies in the U.S.
and perhaps also in Europe are opposing major recommendations for
increases in vitamin D intakes and higher serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D
[25(OH)D] levels [above 30 or 40 ng/ml (75-100 nmol/l)], apparently
because such measures can significantly reduce the burden of human
disease and, therefore, would reduce income and profit from treating
disease. Healthcare in the U.S. now consumes almost 20% of the gross
domestic product.

Historically, vitamin D was associated
with prevention and cure of rickets and osteomalacia, and later with
calcium absorption and bone health. In the past two decades, evidence
has accrued showing that higher 25(OH)D serum levels from diet,
supplements, and/or solar UVB exposure, are associated and
mechanistically linked to better health and longer life expectancy.

In 2009-2010, the Institute of Medicine
(IOM) reviewed the evidence regarding vitamin D, and was instructed by
the study sponsors, the Food and Drug Agency, the National Institutes of
Health, and Health Canada, to use only the evidence from published
high-quality vitamin D randomized
controlled trials (RCTs). However, by that time, such trials had only
found benefits for bone health. From these studies it was known that
bone health 'normalizes' above 25(OH)D levels of~20 ng/ml (50 nmol/l).
However, they also used evidence from purely observational studies to
suggest that there were risks associated with vitamin D supplementation
that raised serum 25(OH)D levels above 30 ng/ml [Ross, 2011a]. This was
the basis for their hypothesis of a U-shaped serum 25(OH)D level vs.
health outcome relationship (higher risk for both low and high levels).
However, this concern was later shown to be largely unfounded since most
of the studies reporting U-shaped risk vs. serum level had no data for
subject vitamin D supplementation, or for when it had started, thereby
confounding subject stratification [Grant, 2016].

Recommended vitamin D intakes and
optimal 'target' serum 25(OH)D levels have increased since the IOM
report. For example, The Endocrine Society subsequently recommended
1000-4000 IU/d (25-100 mcg/d) vitamin D supplement intakes and serum
25(OH)D levels >30 ng/ml (75 nmol/l) for patients with baseline
insufficiency [Holick, 2011]. A more recent review of vitamin D
supplementation guidelines also recommended >30 ng/ml [Pludowski,
2018]. However, such recommendations may be replaced in the near future
by those recommending >40 ng/ml based on studies such as those
reported recently for preterm birth [McDonnell, 2017] and breast cancer
[McDonnell, 2018]. One reason for the low earlier recommendations was
the large underestimate made by the IOM in calculating intakes for the
average population, (i.e. in 50% of the population) rather than for
97.5% of the population for whom the recommendations were presumed to be
aimed [Veugelers & Ekwaru,
2014].

Of course, Big Pharma and its allies
must follow current research findings on vitamin D with trepidation
since they also realize that the general public also follows the
research and has increased its rates of self-supplementation with >
1000 IU/d vitamin D from 0.2% of the population in 2001-2002 to 18.2% in
2013-2014, and that supplementation with >4000 IU/d has also
increased from 0.2% in 2007-2008 to 3.2% in 2013-2014 [Rooney, 2017].

Examples of the use of the five pillars of "The Disinformation Playbook" on Vitamin D

1. The FakeBelow are some papers reporting no benefit from vitamin D
supplementation due to methodological flaws. These examples are for
health outcomes for which well-designed and conducted studies have shown
benefits.

JAMA recently published the results of a
vitamin D plus calcium clinical trial using 2000 IU/d vitamin D3 plus
1500 mg/d calcium [Lappe, 2017]. The trial did not find a significant
all-cancer risk reduction based on intention to treat (i.e. comparing
outcomes on those who received the supplements vs. those who received
the placebo) [Grant, 2017]. However, the trial did find a significant
reduction in all-cancer incidence for those who achieved a level of
>50 ng/ml 25(OH)D, despite the study being somewhat underpowered. But
the journal did not let the authors present or discuss that finding in
the printed paper, relegating the latter analysis on subjects who
achieved repletion to an online supplement for the paper, which few
people read, and issuing a press release stating that vitamin D
supplementation did not reduce the risk of cancer [JAMA Media Advisory,
2017].

(rejected since an earlier Lappe paper
(2007) found that Ca reduced risk of cancer nonsignificantly and vitamin
D + Ca reduced it significantly. However, for prostate cancer, Ca is a
risk factor.)

Cochrane systematic reviews were carried
out that omitted some clinical trials with positive results. Thus, a
Cochrane review of vitamin D supplementation during pregnancy published
in November, 2017, found "There was no effect on preterm birth" and
concluded "The evidence to date seems insufficient to guide clinical or
policy recommendations." [Roth, 2017]. Overlooked in this review was
mention of a paper published in July, 2017, that found a 60% reduction
in preterm birth rates for those in a supplementation study who achieved
>40 ng/ml [McDonnell, 2017],

2. The BlitzThe New York Times published a hit piece on Michael Holick by Liz Szabo of Kaiser Family Foundation on August 18, 2018. "Vitamin D, the Sunshine Supplement, Has Shadowy Money Behind It:
The doctor most responsible for creating a billion-dollar juggernaut
has received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the vitamin D
industry." [Szabo, 2018]

This opinion piece took aim at Dr.
Holick because he is considered the person most responsible for raising
public awareness of the benefits of UVB exposure and vitamin D. The
opinion piece agreed with the IOM report that vitamin D was good for
bone health, but dismissed other benefits through quotes from three IOM
committee members [JoAnn Manson, Clifford Rosen, and Catherine Ross]. It
also stated "A Miracle Pill Loses Its Luster; Enthusiasm for vitamin D
among medical experts has dimmed in recent years, as rigorous clinical
trials have failed to confirm the benefits suggested by early,
preliminary studies." However, it did report that some people in the
"wellness-industrial complex," such as Professor Walter Willett of
Harvard, support supplementation with vitamin D.

The main thrust of the opinion piece was
to attack Dr. Holick for receiving several hundred thousand dollars
from the vitamin D industry, including the indoor tanning industry,
pharmaceutical companies and Quest Diagnostics, a major supplier of
25(OH)D assays. It is not unethical to be paid for one's work. It is,
however, unethical not to disclose in journal publications any competing
interests such as funding from the industry that might benefit from the
publication. Dr. Holick has freely acknowledged his support from the vitamin D industry as he did in the Endocrine Society vitamin D guidelines paper [Holick, 2011].

While several vitamin D researchers
submitted letters to the editor about the above publication, none were
published. The submitted letters supported Dr. Holick and vitamin D
supplementation. Here is the text of one submitted by Cedric F. Garland,
Dr. P.H. and Camillo Ricordi, M.D.

Letters to the editor are an important avenue for countering bias,
misstatements, and omissions in newspapers and professional journals.
To deny publication of such letters is poor journalistic practice, and
in this case, considering the importance of vitamin D to the public, it
is immoral.
The most likely reason the Times did not publish any letters in response
is that the revenue from Big Pharma for advertisements is a large part
of its revenue.

Michael Holick is no stranger to
controversy. In 2004, he was fired from Boston University's department
of dermatology by Dr. Barbara Gilchrest, who was head of the department.
"She called me into her office and said that she couldn't have somebody
in her department recommending sun exposure." [Saul, 2006; Solomon,
2010]. Dermatologists advocate avoidance of indoor tanning devices and
use of sunscreen as a way to reduce the risk of skin cancer and
melanoma. They rarely consider the role of UVB exposure in producing
vitamin D3, or, if they do, state that the little amount of vitamin D
required (for bones) can be obtained though a few minutes of solar UVB
exposure to the head and arms or diet. This, of course, is known to be
inadequate, especially during the winter months and for those who have
dark skin. That is the rationale for the need to take supplements.

3. The DiversionThis approach was explored in great detail by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway in their book Merchants of Doubt [Oreskes & Conway, 2011].

It has also been said that observational
studies on vitamin D supplementation are invalid since they are not
supported by randomized controlled trials. For example, the untested
hypothesis goes, this must mean that low 25(OH)D is a result of disease,
rather than a cause [Autier, 2014, Autier, 2017]. However this
hypothesis has been debunked. "Published RCTs have mostly been
performed in populations without low 25OHD levels. The fact that most
[meta-analyses) on results from RCTs did not show a beneficial effect
does not disprove the hypothesis suggested by observational findings on
adverse health outcomes of low 25OHD levels." [Rejnmark, 2017]

In addition, many vitamin D clinical
trials, including major ones currently underway, have not been based on
measurements of the 25(OH)D level, but instead on the use of a
single-sized dose of vitamin D. The reason for this is that they are
based on the guidelines for clinical trials of pharmaceutical agents,
which assume that 1), the trial is the only source of the agent; and 2),
that there is a linear dose-response relationship. Yet neither
assumption is satisfied for vitamin D. There are several sources of
vitamin D including UVB exposure, diet, and supplements. Also health
effects are not directly related to the dose of vitamin D (which is
inert), but instead derive from the serum level of 25(OH)D, with large
variations in outcomes with increases in initially low 25(OH)D at low
levels, but reduced variation in outcomes with changes in higher 25(OH)D
levels. Thus, clinical trials should be based on measurements of serum
levels of
25(OH)D, not on vitamin D dosage [Heaney, 2014], [Grant, Boucher 2018],
and open-label trials looking for significant health benefits in which
participants know they are taking vitamin D and have sequential serum
25(OH)D measurements [McDonnell, 2017, McDonnell, 2018].

Other authors have implied that "vitamin
D" is just another vitamin by designing studies as if it were a true
vitamin [Fortmann, 2013], [Misotti, 2013] when, in fact, vitamin D is a
hormone precursor provided either in the diet or made in the skin
through the action of UVB on 7-dehydrocholesterol, though the definition
of vitamin is a substance required for life that is NOT produced in the
body. However, the definition of hormone is a regulatory substance
produced in an organism and transported in tissue fluids to stimulate
specific cells or tissues into action. Nearly every cell has a vitamin D
receptor coupled to chromosomes. When the hormonal metabolite of
vitamin D, 1,25(OH)2D, binds to the vitamin D receptor, gene expression
can be up- or down-regulated.

4. The Screen'Big Pharma' contributes to all major disease organizations, and
none of these endorse vitamin D supplementation. In support of this
statement, Google searches were conducted for corporate sponsors of some
of the major disease-centered organizations in the U.S.

None of these organizations have
position statements on vitamin D supplementation, based on a recent
review of guidelines for vitamin D supplementation [Pludowski, 2018].

Disease organizations and pharma corporations that do not endorse vitamin D supplementation:

American Academy of Dermatology 2018 Corporate Partners:The corporate partners are ordered by amount given to the Academy
from Diamond (high) to Bronze (low).[American Academy of Dermatology,
2018]

March of DimesThe March of Dimes is well-known for playing a role in ending the
polio epidemic in the U.S. After that role, it turned its attention to
reducing the rates of birth defects and premature births.
GrassrootsHealth.net and vitamin D researchers at the Medical University
of South Carolina showed that raising serum 25(OH)D concentrations of
pregnant women early in pregnancy lowered the multi-racial preterm birth
rate in Charleston County, SC (7.3% compared to 13.4% ) [Wagner, 2016].
Carole Baggerly of GrassrootsHealth.net told me recently that the March
of Dimes is unwilling to discuss vitamin D supplementation for pregnant
women.

Much of its support comes from Big Pharma: In 2012, the March
for Babies national sponsors included their number one corporate
supporter Kmart, along with top supporters of Farmers Insurance Group,
Cigna, Famous Footwear, Sanofi Pasteur, FedEx, Mission Pharmacal, Watson
Pharmaceuticals, First Response, and United Airlines.[March of Dimes,
2012]

A news account in Science August 10, 2018, reported that
the March of Dimes curtailed support for 37 of 42 recipients of
individual research grants due to reduced income [Servick, 2018].

Medical schools

Big Pharma also gives millions for
research to medical schools. As a result, professors and students devote
much of their time and effort to researching and promoting
pharmaceutical drugs. This means that adequate health maintenance and
disease prevention through lifestyle choices, nutrition, and vitamins,
is rarely taught.

"Historically, nutrition education
has been underrepresented at many medical schools and residency
programs. Our surveys over a decade show that most medical schools in
the United States are still not ensuring adequate nutrition education,
and they are not producing graduates with the nutrition competencies
required in medical practice. Physicians, residents, and medical
students clearly need more training in nutrition assessment and
intervention." [Adams, 2010].

Medical journals

Big Pharma also places many ads in
medical journals and other media, thereby buying acceptance of the
pharmaceutical drug model. Some journals manifest an anti-vitamin D
bias:

JAMA; the editors of JAMA
made the authors of the paper reporting results of vitamin D plus
calcium supplementation to reduce risk of cancer [Lappe, 2017],
discussed above, bury their most important finding in an online appendix
with the excuse that since evaluating results in terms of 25(OH)D
levels was not specified in the trial protocol, it could not be included
in the printed version. This paper also suggested that the public was
being harmed by taking large doses of vitamin D. But no such evidence
exists.

The Lancet; the Lancet
Diabetes & Endocrinology published two papers suggesting that since
clinical trials largely have not found reductions in disease risk from
vitamin D supplementation [Autier, 2014], "that low vitamin D status is a
consequence of ill health, rather than its cause." [Autier, 2017].
However, this hypothesis was untested and unproven.

New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) published this paper by authors of the IOM report [Ross, 2011b] questioning whether there is widespread vitamin D deficiency.

A recent paper found no benefit of
vitamin D supplementation for pregnant women [Roth, 2018] though
supplementation began quite late in gestation (mean of 20 weeks) and it
takes many weeks for 25(OH)D increases to plateau.

However, The NEJM then declined to
publish a paper reporting the benefits of measuring the serum 25(OH)D
level and supplementing with vitamin D3 in Iran [Rostami, 2018], which
did find significant benefits from vitamin D supplementation of pregnant
women. [B. Hollis, private communication]

The fact that the major journals do not
publish what appear to be valid, and useful, papers on the non-skeletal
benefits of vitamin D gives the editors of the Vitamin D page at
Wikipedia.org grounds for denying that vitamin D has many non-skeletal
benefits.

5. The FixBig Pharma exerts significant control over the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC), The Food and Drug Administration (FDA),
and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The evidence is as follows.

CDC

"Many top executives and leaders at the CDC also leave the agency to
take very lucrative positions with pharmaceutical companies, revealing a
revolving door policy between the government and Big Pharma." [Shilhavy, 2018]

An example is that Dr. Julie Gerberding approved Gardisil vaccine and became head of Merck's vaccine division. [England, 2018]

The CDC's review on the effects of
vitamin D predates the IOM report [Ross, 2011a] with the most recent
references from 2007. It does not make any recommendations regarding
vitamin D supplementation or desirable 25(OH)D levels. However, it does
refer readers to other websites that give inadequate recommendations for
vitamin D supplementation [CDC, 2018]:

For more information about vitamin D,
see the Institute of Medicine's Dietary Reference Intake reports
(Institute of Medicine 1997), fact sheets from the National Institutes
ofHealth, Office of Dietary Supplements (http://ods.od.nih.gov/Health_Information/DS_WhatYouNeedToKnow.aspx), as well as information from the American Society for Nutrition (http://jn.nutrition.org)

FDAThe FDA is controlled by Big Pharma through the appointment of its
leaders by the Federal Government and by the fact that Big Pharma funds
many reviews of drugs up for approval. As noted in news accounts, there
is a revolving door between Big Pharma and the FDA. Thus, those entering
the FDA at the policy levels often come from Big Pharma and know that
if they do Big Pharma's bidding while in office, they will be rewarded
with a high-paying job in Big Pharma after leaving the agency.

(A Look at How the Revolving Door Spins from FDA to Industry - NPR [Lupkin, 2018])

FDA advisors are often rewarded
financially after new drug approvals, a practice called "delayed
incentives," yet the FDA has done nothing to restrict this practice.
[Piller, 2018a,b]

"The authorization of user fees in 1992 has turned drug companies into
the FDA's prime clients, deepening the regulatory and cultural capture
of the agency. Industry has demanded shorter average review times and,
with less time to thoroughly review evidence, increased hospitalizations
and deaths have resulted. Meeting the needs of the drug companies has
taken priority over meeting the needs of patients." [Light, 2013].

NIHBig Pharma has arguably been captured by the One Percent [Zaitchik, 2018].

The NIH posted a Fact Sheet for Health
Professionals regarding vitamin D. It basically endorses the IOM report
[Ross, 2011a]. The most recent references (two) are from 2014, but more
recent studies show that high 25(OH)D levels are beneficial in promoting
health. [NIH, 2018]

A former worker in Big Pharma from
1984-95, who co-founded the Nordic Cochrane Collaboration in 1993, and
is now a professor at the University of Copenhagen, published a book
examining how Big Pharma corrupted health Care [Gotzsche, 2013];

In 2009, the Institute of Medicine was
given the task of reviewing the guidelines for supplements of vitamin D
and calcium. The study was funded by the Food and Drug Administration,
the National Institutes of Health, and Health Canada. Among the
guidelines was the requirement that the only evidence for beneficial
effects had to come from clinical trials published by the time the
report was published (end of 2010) [Chung, 2009]. By that time,
randomized controlled trials had only shown beneficial effects for bone
health. The report recommended 600 IU/d vitamin D for those up to 70
years of age, 800 IU/d for those over 70 years of age. The minutes of
the meetings have never been made public, so we will probably never know
what other considerations were used in making these recommendations.
Interestingly, several of the members of this committee have continued
to publish papers suggesting that there is little evidence of benefits
of
vitamin D, for example, disputing the recommendations of the 2011 of the
Endocrine Society vitamin D [Holick 2011, 2012] and questioning whether
there is a vitamin D pandemic [Rosen, 2012a, b; Manson, 2016].

Newspapers

Pharma Owns LA Times

The newspaper has been bought by a biotech billionaire, further entrenching Big Pharma's control of the media (ANH-USA, 2018).

From the LA Times:

Biotech billionaire Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong on Monday will take control
of the Los Angeles Times and San Diego Union-Tribune, two historic
newspapers rooted in Southern California civic life for more than 135
years? that now must adapt for the digital age.

Soon-Shiong is spending $500 million to acquire the news
organizations, along with Spanish-language Hoy and a handful of
community newspapers, from Chicago-based Tronc.

Comment: "Usually Big Pharma influences the media through the billions the
industry spends on advertising, but this time the tactic is outright
ownership. Note too that Dr. Soon-Shiong is in the vaccine business, so we can
expect the LA Times to be vocal supporters of what the state of California is
doing to make it impossible for parents to deviate from the vaccination
schedule. Not only has the state eliminated all non-medical exemptions to
vaccination; they are cracking down on doctors offering medical exemptions, too."

Interested readers can find more information at these websites:

https://scholar.google.com.
This website can be easily searched and may have papers not listed at
pubmed.gov. In addition, it has more links to full papers as well as
listings of other papers that cited the papers found.

http://www.grassrootshealth.net.
This organization, led by Carole Baggerly with Cedric F. Garland, Dr.
P.H. as the scientific advisor, promotes the benefits of UVB exposure
and vitamin D to the general public. It enrolls participants in
voluntary vitamin D and omega-3 fatty acid prospective studies, which
include semiannual blood spot tests.

http://www.vitamindcouncil.org,
led by John J. Cannell, MD, has pioneered advances in the understanding
of the role of vitamin D in reducing risk of influenza, reducing risk
and treating those with autism spectrum disorders, and improving
athletic performance, as well as fighting against criminal punishment of
parents whose infants are found with broken bones and are falsely
accused of baby abuse when the real cause is low serum 25(OH)D levels.
It has reviews of the evidence for many adverse health outcomes. It
sends out frequent emails regarding the benefits of vitamin D.

http://vitamindsociety.org/ is led by Perry Holman. It is a Canada-based vitamin D advocacy organization, with good information about vitamin D.

https://vitamindwiki.com/VitaminDWiki,
is led by Henry Lahore. This website has a trove of information and
papers on the benefits of vitamin D. Mr. Lahore works tirelessly to keep
the site up to date.

(William B. Grant, PhD, directs the Sunlight, Nutrition, and Health Research Center http://www.sunarc.org.
He was a senior research scientist at SRI International, the Jet
Propulsion Laboratory, and the NASA Langley Research Center. He has
authored or coauthored over 60 articles in peer-reviewed journals.)

[This commentary presents the findings and viewpoint of the author. The Orthomolecular Medicine News Service allows equal time for dissenting opinions, which may be submitted to the Editor at the contact listed further below.]

Disclosure: Sunlight, Nutrition
and Health Research Center currently receives funding from Bio-Tech
Pharmacal, Inc. (Fayetteville, AR). In the past, it has also received
funding from GrassrootsHealth.net, the VitaminDCouncil.org, the
VitaminDSociety.org, and the UV Foundation. I have also received
reimbursement for travel expenses for making presentations at various
conferences related to vitamin D and UV exposure, and for coauthoring
books on vitamin D.

Acknowledgements: The author wishes to thank Barbara Boucher and Robert G. Smith for helpful input on this document.

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Sunday, September 30, 2018

Moringa, superfoods, herbs are all part of God's healing gifts. Real lasting health is more than any one food. These herbs and super foods were intended to be an addition to a healthy lifestyle.

Healing involves the balance between the mind, heart, body and soul. If anyone of those is imbalanced or in a state of Dis-ease, you develop sickness in the mind or body. You cannot focus on just one area for real lasting health.

The body must be healed from inside out. It must happen on many levels from your thoughts to your diet. That is why healing is so difficult and often these blocks cause us to remain sick. People want to be well now and not have to change their lifestyle to achieve health. Give me a pill and don't require me to change my diet or lifestyle. It is easier but not the real answer. When I first began my original training in the late 80's, it was based on whole body health. I feel we have to go back to the core of our health.

So there will be changes in the articles presented here.

#1: There will be more material on healing the whole body, getting to the base of illness such as stress, bad diet, emotions, and how we live our life that impacts health.

#2: I will be teaching you about Ayurvedic medicine that is a 5000 years old healing system and still practiced today. It utilizes whole body healing and adaptogen herbs that when taken help each organ and system to work more effectively. They enable the body to use its inherent healing systems to correct imbalance, organs and systems that are over working or under working.

My daughter, Elizabeth is joining me as a writer on this blog in the future. The blog is now a joint mother-daughter partnership to give you the
reader the tools you need to get well and be blessed with longevity.

I am proud to bring my youngest daughter on board with this blog. She has spent the last few years working her way to become quite a healer in her own right. I am so very proud that she will be contributing articles for this blog. She integrates healing concepts into every part of her life, her children's lives, pets, and clients. Elizabeth Vasile comes aboard with so much to offer in education and expertise on healing subjects including the below.

Elizabeth Vasile and her Education:

Associate Degree-Health Information Technology, Hodges University

Licensed Massage Therapist, Bonita Springs School

Licensed Esthetician, Florida Academy of Massage and Skincare

Certified Aromatherapist, American College of Healthcare Sciences

Certified Reflexologist, Bonita Springs School

Certified Integrated Intuitive Professional under Denise Lescano

Education from the East West School of Planetary Herbology

I will be be taking Ayurvedic Classes for the next few months that will give me the more in-depth training I need to expertly teach and give classes next year. I will be taking the classes from K P Khalsa, who is known as one of the greatest teachers of Ayurvedic medicine. My daughter, Elizabeth and I will be developing classes to be presented online. So many of the classes are directed to professional herbalists not you the reader. The expense of these classes often are so expensive that most people cannot afford them.

I know many of you originally came to this blog looking for answers on Moringa. Those blogs are still located on this blog. Moringa is a healing gift that is an exceptional one but it only part of the picture to good health. You need to know more and do more to have lasting healing and longevity. I hope you will tune in every week to get that real knowledge.

Please come back each week to get the information you need for lasting health. Thanks for reading! Kate Freer, the Herbladyisin.

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